Earlier this week I gave a unit 2 math test to my sixth graders. On the whole, they did pretty poorly. The test was on adding, subtracting, and mulitplying with decimals, long division, and writing very large and very small numbers in both standard and number-and-word notation. Anyway, I had a very few 4s, a handful of 3s, and the rest were 2s and 1s-scores under 70% (most were WAY under...).
Today I passed back the tests, telling the kids that if they got a 1 or a 2 for a score, they needed to take home the test for their parents' signature. I didn't want to hit the parent with these lousy scores at conference time in a couple of weeks and catch them unawares. After passing out the tests, I proceeded to go over every problem with the kids.
Later, a student came up to me and asked if she could take the test over again to improve her score. "But, I just spent all morning going over the test," I replied. "Now you know each problem."
"No, I don't," she said. "I wasn't paying attention..."
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